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MasterCard announced Thursday that it will partner with tech leader group Women 2.0 to sponsor many of the group’s upcoming networking events around the world.

Sponsored events will include the monthly “City Meetup” events in St. Louis, New York City, San Francisco, Dublin and Toronto, as well as mentorship luncheons at the Women 2.0 conferences this fall and in spring 2015. They also will put on a joint event at Money 20/20 in Las Vegas.

Women 2.0, founded by Sharerose Charania in 2006, was started to boost the number of female tech leaders, founders and innovators, and create a community to help them thrive. In the early days of Women 2.0, the team would host co-ed networking events in their own apartments — whether or not they knew any of the attendees.